Archive for August 2010





Highway Engineers

Aug 18th, 2010 | By

In between class sessions on my first day as an Assistant Professor at Coastal Carolina, I ran across this great comic from xkcd…and had to post it because I think the same thing every time I see painted traffic instruction on a road here in the US.



Baby Name Map

Aug 18th, 2010 | By

Apartment Therapy has an entertaining post about a baby name map which is a mash up of the most popular baby names around the world. There are also baby name sites, like Baby Name Guide, that have categories dedicated to geography names or geo-names. Public Profiler has a cool tool to look up surnames by [...]



Webscape on geocaching

Aug 17th, 2010 | By

The BBC’s Webscape video show recently took a look at Geocaching.com, sadly the video isn’t embeddable, so you will have to head over to their sight to take a look.



Viewing your Facebook friends on Bing Maps

Aug 16th, 2010 | By

Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla talks about some of Bing Maps‘ map apps.



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 265

Aug 15th, 2010 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 265 August 15, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Brian Wienke of Accela Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 55

Aug 14th, 2010 | By

At the ESRI UC this year we had a chance to talk to the folks at CartoPac about their mobile GIS solutions. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC



AVSP Roadshow – HAZUS @ ESRIUC

Aug 10th, 2010 | By

We sit down with Eric Berman to talk about HAZUS and Risk MAP. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format



Repulsor or stasis

Aug 9th, 2010 | By

Really…it is what happens.



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 264

Aug 8th, 2010 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 264 August 8, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Sheila Wilson and David Dibiase on the GISCI Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



Antiques Roadshow guide to maps

Aug 5th, 2010 | By

This link is a decade old, but still fun. The Antique Roadshow’s website has a section titled ‘Tips of the Trade‘ where different appraisers give tips that help them in deciding appropriate values. One of the tips is Searching out maps which talks about the different things that help them appraise the value of a [...]